Window Film in Silver Spring, Maryland

Office Window Film in Downtown Silver Spring

Downtown Silver Spring is one of Montgomery County's main office centers. NOAA's headquarters campus is here, along with other federal offices, nonprofits, health organizations and private firms. Many buildings date from the 1970s through the 1990s, with long bands of tinted glass, and newer towers have gone up near the Metro and transit center.

For the older stock, low-E and solar film applied to the original tinted panes trims summer heat and winter heat loss without replacement. Newer buildings need compatibility checks before film goes on high-performance units. Frosted film for conference rooms and glass retention film for lobbies round out the commercial work. Montgomery County benchmarking puts energy use in front of owners, and we provide film performance data for their reports.

• Low-E and solar film for older tinted glass
• Compatibility-checked film for newer towers
• Frosted film for conference rooms
• Glass retention film for lobbies

Storefront and Anti-Graffiti Film on Ellsworth Drive

The retail core around Ellsworth Drive, Fenton Street and Georgia Avenue has restaurants, shops, the AFI Silver Theatre and a constant flow of pedestrians from the Metro and the Purple Line construction zone. Ground-floor glass sees heavy wear: scratched tags on doors, keyed lower panes and the occasional break-in.

Anti-graffiti film takes the surface damage so a sheet of film is replaced instead of the glass. Security film inside holds broken glass together. Light solar and UV films keep sunny storefronts comfortable and displays from fading. All of them stay clear, so the shop still looks open from the sidewalk.

Apartment Window Film in Silver Spring Towers

Silver Spring has a large stock of apartment buildings, from mid-century garden complexes to high-rise towers near the Metro. Many older buildings have single-pane or early insulated windows and window air conditioners. Top floors and west-facing units get hot, and lower units face busy streets.

Heat control film on the sunniest windows makes window units work less. Privacy film helps lower-floor apartments near sidewalks. Renters need landlord approval, which is usually easy to get since film peels off cleanly at move-out.

Home Window Film in Silver Spring Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods around downtown and up Colesville Road and Georgia Avenue are full of 1920s through 1950s bungalows, Cape Cods, colonials and brick houses, many under mature oaks and tulip poplars. Older windows are often single-pane or early replacements, and rear additions have brought in larger glass.

UV film for rooms with hardwood floors, heat control for west-facing additions and top floors, and privacy film for bathrooms and street-facing rooms are the usual requests. Pepco summer bills show the biggest difference when west glass is treated first.

Many of these houses have small-paned original windows, front porches that shade the first floor and dormers that do not. The dormer rooms upstairs are often the hottest in the house and the cheapest to fix, since they have only one or two small windows each.